getters and setters style

Question

(Leaving aside the question of should you have them at all.)

I have always preferred to just use function overloading to give you the same name for both getter and s

Answer 1

A few years ago, I would have agreed completely. More recently, a doubt began to make its way, because that makes taking the address of a getter or setter ambiguous. With tools like tr1::bind, this is really annoying.

For example:

struct A
{
   void Foo(int);
   int Foo()const;
};

std::vector v = ....;
std::vector foos;
// Extract Foo
std::transform(
   v.begin(), v.end(), 
   std::back_inserter(foos), 
   //Ambiguous
   // std::tr1::bind(&A::Foo)
   //must write this instead. Yuck!
   std::tr1::bind(static_cast(&A::Foo));
);

Leaving aside the question of should you have them at all ;-)